Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Constitutional Treaties 2: The Declaration of Rights 1688
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“The evangelical elite’s superpower is rhetoric. They are very, very good at it.”
— This has struck me for many years, since I was knocking around in the Oxbridge and Ivy League bubble that churns out the evangelical élite. Now that the evangelical élite has largely gone to the bad, it falls to linguists to defang them.
After all, rhetoric is classically understood as the top layer of language, above the foundation of grammar and the middle layer of logic.
By pointing out ungrammatical and illogical statements made passionately by “Big Eva” churchmen—especially if one does it in a normie-appealing, unselfconscious way, as described in this piece—one can undo a lot of damage.
https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/what-would-normal-people-think-of
— This has struck me for many years, since I was knocking around in the Oxbridge and Ivy League bubble that churns out the evangelical élite. Now that the evangelical élite has largely gone to the bad, it falls to linguists to defang them.
After all, rhetoric is classically understood as the top layer of language, above the foundation of grammar and the middle layer of logic.
By pointing out ungrammatical and illogical statements made passionately by “Big Eva” churchmen—especially if one does it in a normie-appealing, unselfconscious way, as described in this piece—one can undo a lot of damage.
https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/what-would-normal-people-think-of
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What Would Normal People Think of This?
Over the weekend, Ray Ortlund, a semi-big name pastor from Nashville, tweeted out a defense of David French. Here’s the tweet and an exchange with a person in the replies. I responded that sticking up for your friends actually is a virtue
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Proper mask rebellion at a Washington State high school, with an evidently lawfully-minded young man as spokesman.
Lancashire schools have already seen similar.
https://twitter.com/XJCasper/status/1488796611324956674
Lancashire schools have already seen similar.
https://twitter.com/XJCasper/status/1488796611324956674
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#WashougalHSWalkout Washougal High School Washougal, WA East or Vancouver, WA NE of Portland, WA.
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“When I hear the wicked call on the rocks and hills to fall,
When I see them start and shrink on the fiery deluge brink,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know, not till then, how much I owe.”
— The forgotten verse of Robert Murray McCheyne’s When This Passing World Is Done
https://open.spotify.com/track/1A1Hp2qzkZOcGsU9Nwhz9M
When I see them start and shrink on the fiery deluge brink,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know, not till then, how much I owe.”
— The forgotten verse of Robert Murray McCheyne’s When This Passing World Is Done
https://open.spotify.com/track/1A1Hp2qzkZOcGsU9Nwhz9M
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When This Passing World Is Done
Michael O'Brien · Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs · Song · 2015
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Schwab’s Global Young Führers towing us into the New World Order
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dnWhBpV54nQ&t=22s
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dnWhBpV54nQ&t=22s
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Tractor broke in half ......
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A short film. A normie goes to get vaccinated because it's the right thing to do. Then, interesting things happen 🙂
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Mounties threaten truckers at the Alberta border with “trucks being forfeited to the Crown”. The truckers turn it right back at the Mounties by inviting them to defect.
Towards the end, their lawyer reminds the truckers of their constitutional rights.
Towards the end, their lawyer reminds the truckers of their constitutional rights.
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I have just banned someone. His spurious but harmless claims that “unalienable” was anything other than a pre-C18th synonym for “inalienable” (paralleled by the same development in many other negative adjectives) I left uncommented, but he then wrote that “juridical” means “Jew-ridicule”.
No mockery of language on this channel. That’s what the enemy does.
No mockery of language on this channel. That’s what the enemy does.
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Look! Google Ngrams Viewer reveals more plots by bent lawyers to supplant one variant of the negative form of adjectives of capability with the other variant. So cunning of them.
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Knock knock, Jock shock:
Go saw your door.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/covid-plan-to-chop-bottom-of-classroom-doors-off-to-help-ventilation
Go saw your door.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/covid-plan-to-chop-bottom-of-classroom-doors-off-to-help-ventilation
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Covid: Plan to chop bottom of classroom doors off to help ventilation
The move is aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus and improving air flow.
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For clarity, there is a perfectly valid point to be made that the intended meaning of “inalienable” over time was weakened from “incapable of alienation” to something more statist. I won’t, however, entertain cod evidence such as Google Ngram Viewer screenshots or dictionary definitions as supposedly proving an etymological basis for it. That’s not how variants function in the corpus of a language; rather, one variant wins out in standard usage over time.
There can be malice and sorcery afoot in the choice of variant words, but in the case of this pair of variants, it doesn’t have a basis in grammar or standard usage. It might well do in occult circles of power, and so reasserting “unalienable” to be sure of the strongest meaning is commendable.
There can be malice and sorcery afoot in the choice of variant words, but in the case of this pair of variants, it doesn’t have a basis in grammar or standard usage. It might well do in occult circles of power, and so reasserting “unalienable” to be sure of the strongest meaning is commendable.
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Amusing approach he takes: “The plebs are now enlightened enough for us to hand them their freedom back, and … we’re faintly noticing that they’re less than gruntled.”
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JUST IN - Premier Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, a Canadian province that borders the US: "It's time to look at ending all remaining Covid measures and restrictions."
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Canberra police being jolly about gassing an old man. Clink clink, smirk smirk!
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Some of the police provocation from 2Feb. Just look at these two toasting their success. They sprayed the eye of 73 yo man who had been dozing in his camp chair and stood up to defend a woman. This is what they do. Target an older, small woman to provoke the men. They want to incite trouble so they have an excuse to evacuate the camp. You serve us. We pay your wages. And there's more of us than you and more on the way.
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After pepper spraying innocent people the police congratulate themselves with pepper spray, laughing. Well done, armed thugs - assaulting peaceful, unarmed campers. Mama must be proud!
Meanwhile, an old man was beaten and people were pepper sprayed as if they were unwanted insects.
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After pepper spraying innocent people the police congratulate themselves with pepper spray, laughing. Well done, armed thugs - assaulting peaceful, unarmed campers. Mama must be proud!
Meanwhile, an old man was beaten and people were pepper sprayed as if they were unwanted insects.
Needing more numbers in Canberra
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73yo man, here for his grandchildren's future, pepper sprayed in the eye. He didn't have a heart attack, but man is rubbing his chest so maybe some warning chest pain. Police don't seem very perturbed. Thugs.
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General overviews of the situation in the Canberra camp:
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A good summary of where things are at, what happened with the provocative police presence yesterday (2Feb) and a bit about what's to come. Nice level-headed young man who has been in the thick of it in Melbourne. Mild language violations.